We’ve had WAGS, yuppies and metrosexuals; now meet our newest social phenomenon, TWITs.
The TWITs are “Teenage Women In Their Thirties”.
Just like men with Peter Pan-syndrome who are not ready to grow up, TWITs are putting serious relationships and parenthood on hold, instead choosing to continue partying and enjoying the freedoms they discovered in their teens, the Sunday Herald Sun reports.
Melbourne fashion model Kelly Johns is proud to be a TWIT. Ms Johns keeps her age a secret but admits she is in her 30s. “People have a perception of me as being young and fun and when I tell them my age it changes the way they see me,” she said.
She doesn’t have children, is single and said the freedom of youth shouldn’t be a distant memory. “I am here to have good clean fun, party it up and live my life.” she said.
“If I found the right man I would settle down and have kids, but I am not going to sit around at home waiting.”
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Corrections – Correction – NYTimes.com — The corrections section of the NYT, cited here, is getting hilarious. Insofar as the Walter Cronkite tribute (corrections shown below) you have to wonder what exactly the paper actually got right!
Corrections:
An appraisal on Saturday about Walter Cronkite’s career included a number of errors. In some copies, it misstated the date that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed and referred incorrectly to Mr. Cronkite’s coverage of D-Day. Dr. King was killed on April 4, 1968, not April 30. Mr. Cronkite covered the D-Day landing from a warplane; he did not storm the beaches. In addition, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, not July 26. “The CBS Evening News” overtook “The Huntley-Brinkley Report” on NBC in the ratings during the 1967-68 television season, not after Chet Huntley retired in 1970. A communications satellite used to relay correspondents’ reports from around the world was Telstar, not Telestar. Howard K. Smith was not one of the CBS correspondents Mr. Cronkite would turn to for reports from the field after he became anchor of “The CBS Evening News” in 1962; he left CBS before Mr. Cronkite was the anchor. Because of an editing error, the appraisal also misstated the name of the news agency for which Mr. Cronkite was Moscow bureau chief after World War II. At that time it was United Press, not United Press International.
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A Wisconsin man accused of killing his 11-year-old daughter by praying instead of seeking medical care has been found guilty of second-degree reckless homicide.
Dale Neumann was convicted in the March 23, 2003, death of his daughter, Madeline, from undiagnosed diabetes. Prosecutors contended he should have rushed the girl to a hospital because she couldn’t walk, talk, eat or speak. Instead, Madeline died on the floor of the family’s rural Weston home as people surrounded her and prayed. Someone called 911 when she stopped breathing.
Neumann’s 41-year-old wife, Leilani, was convicted on the same charge in the spring and is scheduled for sentencing Oct. 6. Both face up to 25 years in prison.
Their case is believed to be the first in Wisconsin involving faith healing in which someone died and another person was charged with a homicide…
Neumann, who once studied to be a Pentecostal minister, testified Thursday that he believed God would heal his daughter and he never expected her to die. God promises in the Bible to heal, he said. ..
Doctors testified that Madeline would have had a good chance of survival if she received medical care, including insulin and fluids, before she stopped breathing. They said the 911 call came too late.
Ignorance is a terrible excuse for killing your child.
9:20pm – AlaskaReport.com receives letter from Palin lawyer Van Flein evidently confirming some details (will post when we clarify missing information)
AlaskaReport has learned today that Todd Palin and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin are to divorce. Multiple sources in Wasilla and Anchorage (including a former Palin staffer) have confirmed the split.
A National Enquirer story exposing previous affairs on both sides led to a deterioration of their marriage and the stress from that led to Palin’s resignation as governor of Alaska last week.
The Palins were noticeably not speaking to each other for most of last Sunday’s resignation speech in Fairbanks. Sarah ditched Todd (MSNBC) right after the speech and left without him. Sarah removed her wedding ring a couple of weeks ago.
Sarah has recently purchased land in Montana and is considering moving the family there. Sarah Palin is originally from Idaho.
Todd Palin told Fox News last week that he was heading back to his job in the oil fields of Alaska, yet Sarah recently signed a book deal reportedly worth $11 million.
On the other hand… Apparently, this story spread like wildfire yesterday.
“Sarah Palin divorce” remains a top five search term on Google Trends after spending hours as the most searched item of the day.
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“If this had gone unanswered MSNBC would have a countdown clock Monday morning to the supposed date of Palin’s divorce.
Jury selection in the murder trial of a Florida man was interrupted when a potential juror said a witness in the case had once shot her.
As a Jackson County, Florida, prosecutor was asking potential jurors in the trial of Howard Sullivan if any of them knew potential witness Lionel Crawford, a woman raised her hand and said the man had once shot her but was never prosecuted, The Panama City News Herald reported.
Circuit Judge William Wright excused the juror and allowed her to leave the courtroom, the newspaper said.
Authorities allege Sullivan, 23, of Marianna, Fla., killed or was involved in the killing of Roger Donell Horne, 51, who was slain during a home invasion robbery last year. The News Herald said five people were arrested in the case.
Got to remember this one.
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